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Your one-stop guide to mastering the art of bookkeeping
Do you need to get up and running on bookkeeping basics and the latest tools and technology used in the field? You've come to the right place! Bookkeeping All-In-One For Dummies is your go-to guide for all things bookkeeping, covering everything from learning to keep track of transactions, unraveling up-to-date tax information recognizing your assets, and wrapping up your quarter or your year. Bringing you accessible information on the new technologies and programs that develop with the art of bookkeeping, it cuts through confusing jargon and gives you friendly instruction you can put to use right away.
Covers all of the new techniques and programs in the bookkeeping field
Shows you how to manage assets and liabilities
Explains how to track business transactions accurately with ledgers and journals
Helps you make sense of accounting and bookkeeping basics
If you're just starting out in bookkeeping or an experienced bookkeeper looking to brush up on your skills, Bookkeeping All-In-One For Dummies is the only resource you'll need.
Table of contents
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- Cover
- Introduction
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Book I: Keeping the Books
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Chapter 1: Basic Bookkeeping
- Bookkeepers: The Record Keepers of the Business World
- Delving into Bookkeeping Basics
- Recognizing the Importance of an Accurate Paper Trail
- Using Bookkeeping’s Tools to Manage Daily Finances
- Running Tests for Accuracy
- Finally Showing Off Your Financial Success
- Wading through Bookkeeping Lingo
- Pedaling through the Accounting Cycle
- Tackling the Big Decision: Cash-basis or Accrual Accounting
- Seeing Double with Double-Entry Bookkeeping
- Differentiating Debits and Credits
- Chapter 2: Charting the Accounts
- Chapter 3: The General Ledger
- Chapter 4: Keeping Journals
- Chapter 5: Controlling Your Records
- Chapter 6: Computer Options for Bookkeeping
- Chapter 7: Financial Statements and Accounting Standards
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Chapter 1: Basic Bookkeeping
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Book II: Accounting and Financial Reports
- Chapter 1: Financial Report Basics
- Chapter 2: Reporting Profit
- Chapter 3: Exploring Business Structures
- Chapter 4: The Balance Sheet: Assets, Liabilities, and Equity
- Chapter 5: The Income Statement
- Chapter 6: The Statement of Cash Flows
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Chapter 7: Getting a Financial Report Ready
- Recognizing Top Management’s Role
- Reviewing the Purposes of Financial Reporting
- Keeping Current with Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards
- Making Sure Disclosure Is Adequate
- Putting a Spin on the Numbers (Short of Cooking the Books)
- Going Public or Keeping Things Private
- Dealing with Information Overload
- Statement of Changes in Owners’ Equity
- Chapter 8: Accounting Alternatives
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Book III: Day-to-Day Bookkeeping
- Chapter 1: Buying and Tracking Your Purchases
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Chapter 2: Counting Your Sales
- Collecting on Cash Sales
- Practice: Recording Sales in the Books
- Selling on Credit
- Practice: Sales on Store (Direct) Credit
- Proving Out the Cash Register
- Practice: Proving Out
- Tracking Sales Discounts
- Practice: Recording Discounts
- Recording Sales Returns and Allowances
- Practice: Tracking Sales Returns and Allowances
- Monitoring Accounts Receivable
- Practice: Aging Summary
- Accepting Your Losses
- Answers to Counting Your Sales
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Chapter 3: Employee Payroll and Benefits
- Setting the Stage for Staffing: Making Payroll Decisions
- Collecting Employee Taxes
- Determining Net Pay
- Practice: Payroll Tax Calculations
- Surveying Your Benefits Options
- Preparing Payroll and Posting It in the Books
- Practice: Payroll Preparation
- Finishing the Job
- Depositing Employee Taxes
- Outsourcing Payroll and Benefits Work
- Answers to Problems on Employee Payroll and Benefits
- Chapter 4: Employer-Paid Taxes and Government Payroll Reporting
- Book IV: Preparing for Year’s End
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Book V: Accounting and Managing Your Business
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Chapter 1: Managing Profit
- Helping Managers: The Fourth Vital Task of Accounting
- Internal Profit Reporting
- Presenting a Profit Analysis Template
- Answering Critical Profit Questions
- Taking a Closer Look at the Lines in the Profit Template
- Using the Profit Template for Decision-Making Analysis
- Tucking Away Some Valuable Lessons
- Closing with a Boozy Example
- Chapter 2: Budgeting
- Chapter 3: Cost Accounting
- Chapter 4: Filing and Paying Business Taxes
- Chapter 5: Prepping the Books for a New Accounting Cycle
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Chapter 1: Managing Profit
- About the Authors
- Cheat Sheet
- Advertisement Page
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Bookkeeping All-In-One For Dummies
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2015
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781119094210
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